Material UI Menu Icons – Nifty Menu Options
by Joseph G. · Admin & Utilities
Adds beautiful icons to your WordPress menu items. More menu item options are coming soon!
45 health vs 56 average across 1,582 Admin & Utilities plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.18.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2126 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
37
now · peak 83
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-01 200+ → 100+ down after 397 days in band
- 2025-03-30 300+ → 200+ down after 325 days in band
- 2024-05-09 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-05-08 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-05-07 400+ → 300+ down after 221 days in band
- 2023-09-29 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-09-28 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in band
- 2023-09-27 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Max Mega Menu 300K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility 80K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Nav Menu Roles 70K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Float menu – awesome floating side menu 30K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
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